However, the policy of most, if not all, local authorities now has built into it the need for schools to have internal quality assurance mechanisms very like the ones that Jim Thewliss described, whereby, when exclusion is considered, there is consultation to identify whether that is a reasonable and proportionate response.I agree that it is rare that the situation will be as straightforward as in the example that Jenny Marra gave—there will be a story behind a situation—but if a parent had been given that as the reason for exclusion and it was written down on official...